Hitting a Nerve

Hitting a Nerve

Solo Vs McDoctors Inc.

A small, even solo, medical practice isn’t incompatible with the shiny toys of 2024 medicine. You can make good patient care happen with both.

Hitting a Nerve

Mechanism of Action

We want to understand what we’re prescribing will do to patients. We want to explain it to them, too.

Hitting a Nerve

Statins for MS (Not)

Everything we do now in medicine is based on both the successes and failures of what came before.

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Flash Drive Versus Paper

My charts on roughly 20,000 patients can all fit on a gadget the size of my thumb instead of a multi-room...

Hitting a Nerve

Not Keeping Up With the Joneses

I have no desire to advertise that I’m the best neurologist in town (though I believe I’m the best in my building, since there isn’t another one...

Hitting a Nerve

Mom’s Potato Salad

Alzheimer’s disease is a worldwide human problem. Not American. Not western. Not restricted by race, or ethnicity, or continent.

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The Small Business of Medicine

I’m certainly not in a position to offer extended or weekend hours — I mean, I could, but I also have my own sanity to keep.

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The Prohibitive Price Tag

The guidelines, in essence, are useful, but only apply to a perfect world where drug cost doesn’t matter.

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The Digital Side Effects

The CrowdStrike outage is a reminder of how vulnerable our whole world is to disruption of the internet.

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